Salted Caramel Chickpea Blondies
Imagine a warm cinnamon blondie, perfectly moist topped with a salted caramel sauce. Now imagine it also having added protein and fibre. Introducing my favourite chickpea blondies- so good, no one will even know they're healthy.
Servings: 12 blondies
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients:
- 1 can (540ml) chickpeas rinsed and drained (approx. 2 cups of chickpeas, drained)
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ¼ cup milk of choice
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg or 1 flax egg
- 2 tablespoon brown sugar
Dry Ingredients:
- ½ cup oat flour
- 1+½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 batch of my salted caramel vegan caramel
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a blender or food processor, combine wet ingredients and mix until smooth. While the wet ingredients are combining, mix the dry ingredients in a metal bowl.
- Once wet ingredients are combined (the batter will be a wet batter consistency) add the wet ingredient mixture into a large bowl and add the dry ingredients.
- Add batter to a prepared 8x8 baking dish and bake for 20-25 minutes .
- Once blondies are cooled frost with salted caramel sauce and sprinkle with sea salt
Notes
My 3-ingredient salted caramel recipe can be found here!
*I have included the nutrition information for this recipe below. However, always remember a recipe is so much more than just nutritional content and these numbers do not need to dictate your food choices. Please don't forget both your body and soul need nourishment!
Nutrition
Calories: 91kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.002g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 144mg | Potassium: 85mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 31IU | Vitamin C: 0.04mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 0.5mg
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